Monday 29 December 2008 06.32 EST
First published on Monday 29 December 2008 06.32 EST

Are you sitting at your desk trying to concentrate, but finding your mind wandering ... to the trip you could book on lastminute.com, or those Christmas gifts you were going to try and sell on eBay, or the unhappy thought of your post-Christmas overdraft?

Well, you're in good company. Those of us who are working today, and in the days leading up to 12th night, are more likely to be contributing to the economy than the workplace by indulging in a hefty bout of cyber-skiving: browsing, booking, shopping and surreptitiously entering bank account details while making sure the gaze of your boss is averted (the official site of cyber-skiving seems to be only partly working today – perhaps its authors had some real work to do).

"Back to work? Never mind. It's just a few days before national festivities start up again, and no one expects any proper graft to be done in that short post-/pre-fun slot. I realise that this may not apply to people with real jobs, in hospitals and shops; but if you are one of the many office-bound workers forced to show up on a day when, by longstanding tradition, nothing of any use at all will get done, may I congratulate you. You are being paid to skive, so tie some tinsel on your toes and get on with it."

Otherwise, let us know what is attracting your attention. What's the most you've got away with during a day at work? And what are you planning on over the next couple of days? Catching up on all that email correspondence you didn't get time for in the lead-up to Christmas? Planning a wedding? Devising a 2009 money-making scheme? Or just planning NYE?